as in extremely
to a great degree
all of a sudden everything went desperately wrong
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Recent Examples of desperately
Just don’t talk to us the last two weeks of December – some of us are desperately cramming to get that Goodreads confetti.
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Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
The 26-year-old could be available for as little as €30m and would be a shrewd addition for a team that desperately needs greater depth options in the centre of midfield.
—Graham Ruthven, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
Much has been written about how this corner of the market desperately needs to draw in a new, younger base of collectors.
—George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 11 Dec. 2024
Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
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Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
The 26-year-old could be available for as little as €30m and would be a shrewd addition for a team that desperately needs greater depth options in the centre of midfield.
—Graham Ruthven, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
Much has been written about how this corner of the market desperately needs to draw in a new, younger base of collectors.
—George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 11 Dec. 2024
Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for desperately
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The fields of law and insurance are extremely complicated for the layperson, with documents full of terms and concepts that may as well be a foreign language to those unfamiliar with them.Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
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These functions are easy to compute in one direction and extremely difficult to reverse.John Pavlus, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2024
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Foxx’s health was failing terribly, and his vitals were down.Stephanie Giang-Paunon, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2024
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That actually didn’t turn out terribly and was surprisingly bipartisan at the end.Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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This can go badly wrong when such tools are used to classify people and make consequential decisions about them.Arvind Narayanan, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2024
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The stock is now down 20% for the year, badly trailing the Nasdaq, which is up 33% and crossed the 20,000 mark for the first time on Wednesday.CJ Haddad, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2024
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The band worked incredibly hard during their first era, releasing a lot of music for a group of brothers during their decades together.Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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The actress turned out to have a knack for creating incredibly fun Instagrams, putting her in a pantheon of stars who are just as fun to watch on the super-small screen, that includes Reese Witherspoon, Chrissy Teigen and Gwyneth Paltrow.Alex Apatoff, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
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At the bike rental shop, a very large, very sweet German Shepherd greeted me from her dog bed by the counter.Jessica Pierce, TIME, 15 Dec. 2024
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And one of the men inadvertently let out a very … loud sound.Ted Koppel, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2024
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Human individual rights and protecting them are awesome, too.Makena Kelly, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2024
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This is far too many points to spot a Steelers team with a defense much stronger than any the Eagles have faced recently.Hank Gola, New York Daily News, 13 Dec. 2024
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Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper did so in 2008 when opposition parties sought to form a coalition government.Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Dec. 2024
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This thought experiment can't be replicated in the real world, since plastic pollution is so ubiquitous.Will Stone, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024
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The pair really do go through the ringer, evading elephant stampedes, treacherous mountains, and ice cold snowy condidtions that look like Disney is setting up a cross over sequel with Frozen.Pete Hammond, Deadline, 17 Dec. 2024
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We’ve been ushered, gradually and completely, into a world where every voice matters, of course, but some — those of an establishment class who want to make sure everyone is really welcomed — matter more than ours.Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Desperately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desperately. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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